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American - Businessman Born: 1966

The mark of a wise person isn't never making mistakes - everyone makes plenty of them. Rather, it's the ability to quickly admit - and fix - them!

Wise Mistakes Never Person

No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed.

Reflection News Accounting Investment

I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government.

People Government Think Country

I love and celebrate good teachers, and it's critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated.

Love Good Celebrate Happy

In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken.

Life Confidence Persistence Optimism

If I bring to light a company that's poisoning customers, defrauding investors, or something like that... there just aren't enough regulators in the world to keep up with all of the fraud and malfeasance that goes on out there, particularly in the little nooks and crannies of the market.

Light World Enough Company

The deal machinations many companies put themselves through, while certainly a bonanza for investment bankers, can confound the typical investor.

Investment Through Deal Many

Parents are, of course, most important in shaping their children's lives, but teachers are critically important as well. Who among us doesn't look back on a few great teachers who inspired us, opened up new worlds, and helped make us who we are?

Children Great Parents Look

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.

Experience People Arrogance Very

The best way I know to get rich long-term is to invest prudently and conservatively and not try and get rich quick but try and get rich slowly, basically.

Best Rich Way Know

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There's a real company in Facebook and then a lot of pretenders riding their coat tails.

Riding Real Company Facebook

While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational fashion and selling us certain stocks at prices far below their intrinsic value. More volatility equals cheaper stocks, which equals higher returns.

Fashion Value Pleasure More

Because I'm a very public figure, everybody knows what my returns are.

Because Everybody Very Knows

Shorting saved my butt in 2008... Shorting kept me in the game. It generates cash when the market's crashing. And that's what you want when the market's crashing - cash.

Me You Game Want

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

Business You People Short

I am part of the 1 percent of the 1 percent. By that, I mean that I am fortunate to be a wealthy American, and I say, 'It's okay to raise my taxes.'

I Am Say Okay American

I think most people agree with the idea of shared sacrifice, but for many, when push comes to shove, that principle goes out the window.

People Sacrifice Window Think

While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe.

Best Corruption World Government

Mueller is the leading North American provider of water infrastructure and flow control products - things such as fire hydrants, valves, pipes, fittings, and couplings. While this is no doubt a mundane business, it is also an excellent one.

Business Water Fire Control

Pence is far too conservative for me, but by all accounts, he's an intelligent, experienced, decent man with no skeletons in his closet.

Me Man Intelligent Conservative

In the game of politics, both parties are sometimes guilty of passing really stupid laws that, in reality, are purely symbolic and have no real impact on anyone.

Politics Stupid Game Sometimes

I believe our schools will actually get better if layoffs are done carefully, such that only the very worst teachers are let go.

Believe Better Teachers Will

There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning the system.

Children Teachers Who Far

Nirvana, to a value investor, is paying a cheap price for a company that is growing in value every year at a nice rate - this largely explains why today we own stocks like Berkshire Hathaway, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Costco and Anheuser-Busch.

Today Value Nice Own

There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin.

Rich Way Ruin Get

The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for dollar bills that you can buy for 50 cents or at some big discount - that is universal to value investing.

You World Looking Value

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